infarct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfarctus, tu-stem derivation of īnfarciō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɑɹkt/}

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

infarct (plural infarcts)

1. (pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
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     After RSE treatment for 90 days, there was no comparable fibrosis in noninfarct and infarct regions.

Derived terms

• infarction
• macroinfarct
• microinfarct
• multi-infarct
• myocardial infarct

 

Related terms

• infarce

Translations

area of dead tissue

• Albanian: infarkti
• Azerbaijani: infarkt
• Bulgarian: инфа́ркт m (infárkt)
• Catalan: infart m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梗塞 (zh) (gěngsè)

• Czech: infarkt (cs) m
• Dutch: infarct (nl) n
• Estonian: infarkt
• Finnish: infarkti (fi), kudoskuolio
• French: infarctus (fr)
• Galician: infarto (gl) m
• German: Infarkt (de) m
• Greek: εμβολή (el) f (emvolí)
• Hebrew: אוטם m
• Hungarian: infarktus (hu), (érelzáródás miatt) elhalt szövet
• Ido: infarkto (io)
• Indonesian: infarsi
• Italian: infarto (it)
• Japanese: 梗塞 (ja) (こうそく, kōsoku)
• Korean: 경색 (ko) (gyeongsaek)
• Norwegian: infarkt
• Persian: اَنفارکتوس (fa) (anfârktus)
• Portuguese: infarto (pt), enfarte (pt)
• Russian: инфа́ркт (ru) m (infárkt)
• Spanish: infarto (es)
• Swedish: infarkt (sv)
• Turkish: enfarktüs (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфа́ркт m (infárkt)
• Urdu: احتِشاء
• Vietnamese: nhồi máu

Anagrams

• frantic, infract

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfarctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɑrkt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧farct

Noun

infarct n (plural infarcten, diminutive infarctje n)

1. (pathology) infarct

Derived terms

• darminfarct
• hartinfarct
• herseninfarct
• longinfarct
• myocardinfarct
• nierinfarct
• ooginfarct
• verkeersinfarct

 

Further reading

• “infarct” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• infarct on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French infarctus or German Infarkt.

Noun

infarct n (plural infarcte)

1. heart attack

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	infarct	infarctul		infarcte	infarctele
genitive-dative	infarct	infarctului		infarcte	infarctelor
vocative	infarctule			infarctelor